Let's be honest with everyone here. It doesn't do much. Other than being a waste of resources compared to other swords of a similar calibre and having the novelty of being a chainsaw sword, the Amputator is mostly useless.
But it doesn't have to be that way. There is one damage type that has gone mostly untouched in the Brandish: Piercing.
Yes is my suggestion is to make the Amputator into the piercing member of the brandish line of swords, instead of that weird uncle no one likes.
Does this mean flourish will be left to the wayside? No, once again. The damage of both could be buffed to put them on par with the Archon.
But that will make the game too easy? No, once again. This is a change I suggest based entirely around the difficulty of the Shadow Lairs.
What about the Slime damage buff? It'll be useless!
That's... the point. Remove it if you will, but it's not needed.
I'd think I'd be a better contribution that way. Having a chainsaw sword would be nice. Having one that can make a pelt out of any wolvers and lizards and tearing through fiends like Doomguy would be really neat.
Anyway, thank you for reading my TED talk.
double post, sorry for the inconvencience.